GBC Creed

I believe in One God – the eternal Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;

Who directly created the heavens, the earth, and mankind;

The inspiration, authority, and sufficiency of the Bible;

The incarnation and virgin birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ;

His identification as the Son of God – fully God yet fully man;

His substitutionary atonement for the sins of mankind by the shedding of His blood on the cross;

The resurrection of His body from the tomb;

His power alone to save everyone who believes;

The new birth through the regeneration of the Holy Spirit;

And the gift of eternal life by the grace of God.

GBC Covenant

Having, as we trust, been brought by divine grace to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and to give up ourselves to him, and having been baptized upon our profession of faith, in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, we do now, relying on His gracious aid, solemnly and joyfully renew our covenant with each other.

We will work and pray for the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

We will work together for the continuance of a faithful evangelical ministry in this church and the spread of the Gospel through all nations, as we sustain its worship, ordinances, discipline, and doctrines. We will contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry and the expenses of the church.

We will walk together in brotherly love, as becomes the members of a Christian Church, exercise an affectionate care and watchfulness over each other and faithfully admonish and entreat one another as occasion may require.

We will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, nor neglect to pray for one another.

We will endeavor to bring up such as may at any time be under our care, in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and by a pure and loving example to seek the salvation of our family and friends.

We will rejoice at each others’ happiness and endeavor with tenderness and sympathy to bear each other’s burdens and sorrows, including the relief of the poor.

Having been symbolically and spiritually buried by baptism and raised with Christ, we recognize the special obligation and divine power to lead a new and holy life.  We will seek, by Divine grace, to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all. Amen.